Improvement in sash-fasteners



E. B. BEACH.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEIIoEo EDGAR B. BEACH, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT TO HENRY B. BEACH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,976, dated September 21, 1875; application led August 25, 1875.

To all whom vit may concern Be it known that I, EDGAR B. BEACH, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash- Fasteners, of which the following isa specication:

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of sash-fasteners consisting of a cylinder or tube adapted to be inserted through and fastened in the stile of the sash, and carrying a spring-bolt, which takes hold of or enters into the jamb of the window-frame, securing the sash in any desired position. l A My invention has for its object to furnish a convenient locking device for fastening the bolt, either when inserted in the jamb or fully withdrawn from the same, the parts of which will always be exposed to view and under control without removing theapparatus from the stile, as is necessary inV all apparatus of this class as hitherto constructed.

My invention consists in constructing the bolt-tube with a projecting end in front of the attachment plate, slotted on opposite sides, to receive the ends of across-pin inserted through the bolt, and allow the saine to be fastened over the extremity of the tube when the bolt is fully withdrawn, and also reversed for locking purposes, hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawing, Figure lis a perspective view of my improved sash-fastener applied to a Window, and Fig. 2 ahorizontal section and a front view, with the bolt-head removed, of

which are cut recesses F. Through the bolt, near its outer end is inserted a pin, G, which works in the slots, and which may be thrown ing until the pin engages or rests upon the extremity of the tube. By extending the front end of the tube forward, as described, the

locking portions of the device are all brought upon the outside, where they can readily be observed and reached for the purpose of cleaning or repairing, should the slots become clogged with dirt or the pin break or become worn, without removing the device from the stile, as is necessary with all other devices of this class.

The device is secured in the sash-stile in the usual manner, by means of screws inserted through the attachment-plate, said plate setting in a recess formed for the purpose, so as to be flush .with the outside of the stile.

This sash fasteuer, constructed as above described, is also intended to be used in sashes having a center rail and but two glasses in a sash, and is a decided improvement and one greatly needed in this style of sashes. For use in this construction of sashes, the latter is provided with a hole at its bottoni, which the end of the bolt enters.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bolt-tube A, having a projecting end in front of the attachment-plate D, slotted and recessed, as vhereinbefore described, in combination with the spring-bolt B and cross-pin G', substantially as described.

In testimony that vI claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

EDGAR B. BEACH.

- Witnesses:

GEO. W. SMITH, G. W. BAXTER.

with longitudinal' slots E, near the bottom of y 

